Preacher, sermon and audience in the Middle Ages / / edited by Carolyn Muessig.

• Superior document: New history of the sermon
• TeilnehmendeR: Muessig, Carolyn.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: New history of the sermon ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 322 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) :; illustrations

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the functi...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Carolyn Muessig
• Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages: An Introduction / Carolyn Muessig
• From Texts to Preaching: Retrieving the Medieval Sermon as an Event / OP Augustine Thompson
• The Ars Praedicandi and the Medieval Sermon / Phyllis B. Roberts
• Coram Papa Preaching and Rhetorical Community at Papal Avignon / Blake Beattie
• Medieval Sermons and their Performance: Theory and Record / Beverly Mayne Kienzle
• The Preacher as Goldsmith: The Italian Preachers' Use of the Visual Arts / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
• Preaching and Image: Sermons and Wall Paintings in Later Medieval England / Miriam Gill
• The Preacher Saint in Late Medieval Italian Art / Roberto Rusconi
• Vercelli Homilies XI-XIII and the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform: Tailored Sources and Implied Audiences / Charles D. Wright
• The Preacher as Women’s Mentor / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
• Audience and Preacher: ad Status Sermons and Social Classification / Carolyn Muessig
• The Context of Medieval Sermon Collections on Saints / George Ferzoco
• Reconstructing the Mental Calendar of Medieval Preaching: A Method and Its Limits: An Analysis of Sunday Sermons / Jussi Hanska
• General Index / Carolyn Muessig.